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A confidential report to the bankrupt city offers a loan of $500 million to $3 billion, collateralized by pieces in the Detroit Institute of Arts, at a rate of Libor plus 5.5 to 8.5 percentage points.
Twitch.tv, bought by Amazon for over $1 billion, flourished with increasing data speeds and a growing community, taking over the start-up that created it.
The domain, owned by Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific island nation, signals how people watch TV now — online and on apps — and makes the country a tidy sum, too.
President Obama is nearing a decision to authorize airstrikes and airdrops around Amerli, an Iraqi town that has been under siege by militants for more than two months.
To sidestep Senate approval, President Obama’s negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal to “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 27, 2014, covering August 27, 2014.
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Various Artists
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The Gaslight Anthem
Troye Sivan
2014Jacques Friedel, French physicist and academic (born 1921)[†]
Jacques Friedel ForMemRS was a French physicist and material scientist.
2014Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1920)[†]
Valeri Petrov, was a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin.
2014Benno Pludra, German author (born 1925)[†]
Benno Pludra was a German children's author. He was born in Mückenberg, now Lauchhammer-West.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]